Copying text from Firefox Browser

Goes wacky when I paste

[Musicarl]

If I select a block of text from a site I'm viewing in Firefox, when I paste that text into another application, it displays in some nutty font style - definitely not what I'm viewing in the browser. This leads to a lot of reformating, which is a pain. Any ideas on how to get around this?

[yowza]

I think this has to do with the program that you are pasting the text into... I would paste it into a text editor like Notepad and then copy from Notepad and paste into your desired program... There are other options, but this seems like the simplest

[2by4]

You want to grab
[addons.mozilla.org...]
copy plain text extension, that solves the problems.

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